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DRL => Discussion => Topic started by: AStranger on October 26, 2009, 09:27
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Wrote a terminal for DoomRL that remembered where globes were after the player saw them and continued to display them until they were determined gone? I find one of the hardest things while playing can be remembering if and where I saw a globe. I think it technically isn't cheating because it's only using information (past and present) that was already given to the user, but sometimes I can go a little too far.
It's worth noting that the terminal is already written. It doesn't implement the entire VT spec, but enough of it to display DoomRL almost correctly. I still need to find exactly what characters are in the DEC Special Character and Line Drawing Set and their UTF-8 values, so there are a few things that display with the wrong symbol. The 'remember globe' feature hasn't been written, but I'm thinking about it. If you are wondering why I wrote it, it's because I wanted to resize the window.
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Personally I don't think it's cheating. I mean, you could as well just take a sheet of paper and draw every new tile on that; it IS fair, I can imagine some (really patient) roguelike players even do that.
Be careful, though, to not spoil your own fun.
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Well if you can't remember if you saw a globe or not I'd say that you need to lay off the drugs. I have a short memory but heck it's not like they are tough to see or anything like that.
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Well if you can't remember if you saw a globe or not I'd say that you need to lay off the drugs. I have a short memory but heck it's not like they are tough to see or anything like that.
Nail, head, you got it.
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Well, I wouldn't say that actually... I mean it's not the first time for me either I forgot a supercharge I spared for the end of the level.
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I wish that DoomRL, once you have cleared a level, would reveal all the terrain you have seen as if you had gotten a computer globe. Not reveal stuff you haven't seen, but just show what you had already seen so you do not have to wander around the level again to make sure you didn't forget something you wanted to pickup later.
So, no, I do not consider it cheating. I think it should be a feature. :)
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I wish that DoomRL, once you have cleared a level, would reveal all the terrain you have seen as if you had gotten a computer globe. Not reveal stuff you haven't seen, but just show what you had already seen so you do not have to wander around the level again to make sure you didn't forget something you wanted to pickup later.
So, no, I do not consider it cheating. I think it should be a feature. :)
This'd work... :)
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I wish that DoomRL, once you have cleared a level, would reveal all the terrain you have seen as if you had gotten a computer globe.
Add it in the RFE board. Sounds fair enough...